I am preparing a device with shred to use it later on encrypted with dm-crypt/cryptsetup/luks.
How can I check the device before and after using shred or e.g openssl/dd with /dev/urandom to be sure ...

I wish to make use of full disk encryption using Luks on ubuntu 14.04. However, i wish to make use of my own python script to carry out the functionality of generating the decryption key during device ...

I cannot find how to install grub-crypt either.
How can I generate SHA512 pass hashes on Centos 7?
Edit: I was actually trying to look up how to generate hashes with an adjustable number of rounds. ...

Ok I can decrypt a specified client connected to wifi by deauthing it and getting the handshake using wireshark. In fact after wireshark captures the EAPOL messages it starts to decrypt the traffic. ...

Remmina works fine with TLS and NLA. But if encryption is set to high instead of client compatible, then it stops working.
Questions:
1. Why setting high encryption prevents connectivity?
2. What's ...

I have a host under Debian Wheezy, running qemu/KVM.
I want to have all my guests fully-encrypted.
I can see to possibilities :
- Either I encrypt the LVM Volume using dm-crypt (cryptsetup) and use ...

I am looking into hosting a HIPAA compliant web application on Azure VM's. For the database, right now I am leaning towards using a VM with SQL 2014 Standard Edition.
Since TDE is not available with ...

I want to encrypt regularly created and compressed backup files from OpenVZ containers, before they leave the server and get copied to the providers backup space via ftp.
They vary in size, from 6 to ...

I wanted to use an older T2 machine as a webserver for SSL heavy websites. With Solaris, there is the crypto acceleration available which would make sense for SSL. Now I am wondering if this crypto ...

I have a local server with encrypted partition just for data, which I want to serve through samba server. I want to avoid re-entering password on each server start (e.g. on electricity failure) for ...

What is the best way to encrypt data between internal servers? We have a few homegrown apps that run on 2008R2 servers that transmit sensitive data. Would an IPSec connection between the two servers ...

Google chrome will start to warn users that their SSL connection is insecure under the following conditions:
The cert uses the SHA1 hashing algorithm, and
The cert expires on or after 2016-01-01 (or ...

My boss wants to set up encrypted file shares using EFS on Windows Server 2012 R2 Boxes accessed by Windows 8.1 clients. I've been able to set the default DRA, issue certificates in test cases and so ...

We have to connect one site to another using leased fiber ( theoretically it's a dark one ) in order to replace a radio link. All servers are in one site.
Both location now have Gigabit networks.
Can ...

I was trying to run Debian installer on top of an already luks-encrypted partition (I tried to do use cryptsetup in the console).
I don't remember ever saying "yes, destroy" data, but what I see now, ...

I am running 389-DS on CentOS. Version - '389-ds-base.i686 1.2.11.15-34.el6_5'. Security scans revealed that NullCiphers were found on Port 389 and 636.
I tried to disable them by shutting down DS, ...

I'm developing a web application that runs on a server local to the same network as the client- basically, instead of a central web server, each customer site will have its own server hosted on the ...

I use XMPP for sending instant messages from a bot in a server to a laptop client. I have full control of both the clients (bot and laptop client) and they are both connected to the same server which ...

This question does not rely on time... so it's not about keeping data on tape or anything similar.
I have 3 distinct PCs with critical information. PCs are running Windows OS. They all hold critical ...

I have a need to run multiple 2008 R2 VMs under the free esxi. Storage will be local to the host. As I understand it, BitLocker is not a supported option in a VM environment from either Microsoft or ...

We currently face a huge problem and we hope you can help us.
We have two systems (Dynamics CRM 2013) on two different servers, both use SQL Server 2012.
One on our dev server the other on our live ...

I have a kind of philosophical question.
I'm about to set a new backup server and as time is passing encryption of data seems more and more reasonable.
However what if the harddrive goes bad. I know ...

Long story short, I have some configuration file for a tool containing sensitive information and the client want them encrypted. I want to use EFS for this, but there is a problem : the account doing ...

Currently I am planning on moving data from a number of remote sites across to our head quarters in Germany. The data is too large to replicate/copy over site to site VPN so I'm going to have to do ...

This is for a fresh install of 13.1 I'll be making. Four drives in RAID10 need to be on the bottom.
I'd rather the RAID be software, MD, rather than hardware, though I'd use hardware RAID if all else ...